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On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 22:26, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Ah, I can't help enjoying the delicious irony of the "New" Year. Nathan is already pushing the merits of RPG over all else, while Lukas is busy pushing back the Wonders of Windows. Next we should hear Dave Odom chiming in on how DB2 is not a "real" database and Steve Richter telling us how much ILE sucks. Then all we need is Simon Coulter telling somebody how stupid they are, and the year will have gotten off to a wonderful start, just about as "New" as the "new" White House administration.
tasks, calendars, and other data in a single stream file. Although Outlook has a look and feel of a database application, it lacks many database functions because it doesn't store data in database tables. It's limited to single users, and lacks index, search, and report capabilities.
The .PST format used by Outlook is a database format. It has
checkpoints, logfiles, search and indexing capabilities, and if you
were really obsessed with MAPI you could also write reports. If you
look at the MAPI documentation, it quickly becomes obvious that you're
dealing with a database.
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